ikiwiki/doc/bugs/several_entries_in_docs__47__bugs_contain_colons_in_the_filename.mdwn

I just tried to clone the git repo onto a windows machine to test things out a bit and it turns out i cannot even successfully checkout the code because of those colons. Would a patch changing those to underscores be accepted? --Mithaldu

> Well, this is a difficult thing. Ikiwiki has a configuration setting to
> prevent it writing filenames with colons, but for backwards compatability
> that is not enabled by default. Also nothing would stop people from
> making commits that added filenames with colons even if it were disabled
> in ikiwiki. I don't know that trying to work around obscure limitations
> in OSs that I've never heard of ikiwiki being used on is worth the bother
> TBH, but have not really made up my mind. --[[Joey]]

>> I'm not trying to run it there. Ikiwiki is way too friggin' weird to try that. I just want to be able to check out the main repo so i can work in a native editor. Right now your core repository is downright hostile to cross-platform development in any way, shape or form. (Just plain splitting the docs from the code would work too.) --Mithaldu

>>> Does(n't) cygwin handle the filename limitation/translations?  If so, can you check out via git inside a cygwin environment? — [[Jon]]

>>>> That actually allows me to check things out, but the resulting repo isn't compatible with most of the rest of my system, so it's extremely painful. --Mithaldu